Ouachita Baptist University Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, 1960-1964 Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine 8-22-1963 August 22, 1963 Arkansas Baptist State Convention Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/arbaptnews Part of the Christianity Commons, and the Mass Communication Commons Recommended Citation Arkansas Baptist State Convention, "August 22, 1963" (1963). Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, 1960-1964. 202. https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/arbaptnews/202 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine at Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. It has been accepted for inclusion in Arkansas Baptist Newsmagazine, 1960-1964 by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Arlan~a~ Baptist On the two Sundays we'll be in Dothan-Aug. 25 and Sept. 1-I am to supply for Dr. Alfred. Vansallt, pastor of First Ohurch in·nearby Colum­ bia, who will be. away on his vacation. Alfred· and personally speaking I "foug·ht, bled and almost died together'..' as slu- . dents· at Ouachita College, and, later, at Southern Seminary. In between Sundays. I shall divide my time between cuddling Becky and helping Sam hem up some big bream in a private lake near Dothan. <!t,.,c:.~_t.A~'"~ llTHEN this is read, Your Truly will be on the camP­ VV us of Baylor University, Waco, Tex., for a · week's meeting of the, Executive Committee ~f the IN THIS ISSUE: Baptist World Alliance. I shall be serving as proxy for a dear friend I have not yet had the privilege of ONE of -the biggest rackets in America . is meeting-the Rev. Juan Perez ''Trafficking in Religion.'' Read the incisive Guzman, of Barcelona, Spain. editorial on this subject by Editor C. R. Daley of The invitation to represent Kentucky's W (!stern R~corder, on page 6. , Brother Guzman came from him about a year ago, in an air-mail COUNSELOR Rosalind Street deals further .... letter from Barcelona. He wrote with the problem of what to do when· your mother.­ . as a regular reader 'of the A rkan- in-law- "moves i'n." Y,ou 'll find· this interesting . feature on_page 9. · ERWIN L. sas Baptist N ews-magazilne, saying some mighty kind things· about the paper and the editor's weekly effQrts. Since he had decided it DOT WEEKS .gives the interesting low-down· would not be possible for him to ._travel to the on Alma Hunt-:..Miss WMU-in another of the United States for .:the Waco meetings, he wanted Bap_tist Press biographical features on Southern to know if I would represent him. Baptist Convention leaders, on page 7. · . ' This,_ is a great honor and aiD. equally great re- CARRIED on pages 25-29 is a complete report - sponsibility, for, as an ;,tuthorized proxy, I shall of all giving by churches last year to Arkansas . not only be sitting in on all of the Executive Coro­ ·Baptist Home for Children. Check the list to see mittee 's sessions, but voting on the important mat­ what your church gave. Can you lead the church ters to be decided at that time. to increase its support this fall T This will.be the second ti:r9-e I have ser've4 as a .-proxy at. the BWA :ipxecutive Committee meet­ ings. The other time was in 1950, in Cleveland, MEMBER: ~here I represented Dr. Ellis A. Fuller, president Southern Baptlot Pree.o Aao'n Aoooclated Church Pree.o at that time of Southern Seminary, Louisville, who .Evangelical Pree.o Aao'n was ill and unable to attend. (Dr. Fuller died of a heart attack a few months' later, while on a August 22, 19G3 Vol. 62, Number 33 preaching mission to California.) Editor, ERWIN L. MCDONALD,· Litt. D. Feeling that our readers will be interested in Associate Editor, MRS. E . F . STOKES hearing a first-hand report on the BWA commit­ Managing Editor, MRS. TED WOODS tee meetings, I shall plan to report . more fully, Field Representative, J. I. CossEY from Waco. Secretary to Editor, MRS. HARRY GIBERSON Mail Clerk, MRS. WELDON TAYLOR. For the next two weeks after Waco, Mrs. Mc­ 401 West Capitol Donald and I plan to be in Dothan, Ala., visiting Little Rock, Arkansas ,Published weekly, except on July 4 and December 25. our older daughter Jeannine and her family- Dr. Second-class pootage paid at Little Rock, Arkansas. Individual Qfibscription, $2.26 per year. Church Budget, 14 cent.a per month Sam H. Jones Jr., art M. D., a~d their little or $1.68 per year per church family. Club plan (10 or more paid annually In advance) $1.75 per year. Subscriptions to forejgn daughter-OUR GRANDDAUGHTER-Rebecca address, $3.76 per year. Advertising rates on reque~~t. Articles carrying the author's by-line do not necessarily reflect Lynn, who, at 19 months of age is already showing the editorial policy of the paper. Abbreviations used In crediting news Items: BP Baptist Press; CB Church signs of coming· from awfully good stock I Bulletin ; DP Dally Press ; EP Evangelical Press. Page Two ARKANSAS BAPTlST Arlansa~ Baptist --------EniToRIAts ~ - Child~en's Home report Christian living N fund _raising, nothing is more impo~t I than helping the potential givers to have fac­ ·1 IFE . is certainly not getting any less com- tual material in hand and to see what the real need plicated. The Christian today is !ikely to have is for which moneys are being sought. Superintend- more desire to live it in a Christ-like way. ent John R. Price of the Arkansas Baptist Home for Children is wise in making a detailed report in The New Testament is the most authoritative this issue (see pages 25-29) on what the churches of guidebook we have. Here we find the teachings and \ the Arkansas Baptist State Convention are doing' example of Christ. It is not too difficult to deter- to meet the needs of our ~hildren 's hom~. mi:r~e .what the Christi~~'s 1 attitude o.f hear~ should · The Price report comes as something _of an eye­ be, bu~ actually, attai;nmg that attitude Is often opener in its revelation · that more than 400 something else. Sometimes the one who makes the churches of the Convention gave not one penny bi~gest. to-do over what the Chri~tian attitude is ' for the support 0~ the Home last year. Sta~s fai~s mis~rably to ?emonstrate, himself, that for Superintendent Price: ''This is a very discour­ whiCh he IS contendmg. aging factor when you consider that this figure Many who claim to be ''in the center of God's represents about one-third of our churches." will'' do not succeed in convincing those cldsest to There are so many needs and so many appeals that it is easy for a church to miss one. We suspect them. There is much to indicate that the Lord gets 1 blamed for a lot of things for which he is not that none of the 400 ·churches here referred to planned not to_give something for the Home last guilty. There is always the danger that one I who feels he has a private line to the throne· of God is year. The calling of our attention to the Home and its needs at this time, :well advance of the ~ual not reaching any .further out than the self-~en­ ill tered desires of his own heart. offering,. will result, we trust, in all of our churches planning tlefinitely to have a part in this Granted that one can, by seeking, find what worthy objective this year. Perhaps many of the God's will is for himself, there is not too mu,ch to churches which gave last year will find a ·· way to indicate that God reveals his will to private snoop­ increase their support this time.- ELM ers for the lives' of others. When Peter asked the Lord, pointing to John, ~ 'And what. shall this man dot" The Lord replied: " ...what is that to thee! follow thou me.'' (John 21 :22b). · W. I. (Bill) Walton When one has arrived at what he sincerely .be­ lieves to be th;e Christian attitude on any given U ACHITA Coliege and tlie cause of Christian issue, there is still the question: What is the Chris­ 0 1 educatio~ will sorely miss W . •I. (Bill) Walton, tiall way of conducting my affairs so as to ·ha,ve an·· alumn'!lS of the college, a former "outstanding ·the greatest influence for good on· the lives of football coach there, and a life-long· supporter of others 7 And neither the one who will never speak the college. Death claimed Coach Walton, as he out nor the one who will ·never keep quiet lias the · continued to be known affectionately by scores of pat answer. For there is a time to speak and. ·a Ouacllitonians, on Monday· of last week, just as he time to ~efrain from speaking, and one of the pray­ was thought to be recovering from a. heart attack ers we need to pray without ceasing is that the he had suffered July 24. Lord will help us to know which time it is . · In a tribute to Mr. Walton, Dr. Ralph.A. Phelps Jr., p'residen't of Ouachita, said: "Ouachita has None of us is. so close to perfection that he can . lost one of the best friends it ever had. As ooach, be a spiritual policeman over the lives of every­ trustee; and endowment worker, he h~ done a body else.